CALIFORNIA: Micro-blogging site Twitter has said that it has removed approximately 300,000 accounts being used for the “promotion of terrorism”.

“299,649 accounts promoting terrorism were removed in the first half of this year,” the company said.

“Less than 1 per cent of account suspensions were due to government requests,” Twitter said and added that the previous 95 per cent were thanks to the company’s internal efforts to combat radical content with “proprietary tools”.

Twitter defines “promotion of terrorism” as actively inciting or promoting violence “associated with internationally recognized terrorist organizations.”

The company further added that it had removed 935,897 accounts for the promotion of terrorism between August 1, 2015, and June 30 this year.